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Showing 36 Films from Japan
37 Seconds
A breakout performance from Mei Kayama anchors HIKARI’s reflective debut feature, in which a 23-year-old manga artist (Kayama) ...
Ainu Mosir
In an indigenous village in Northern Japan, sensitive 14-year-old Kanto takes his first steps towards manhood as a debate brews...
A Night at the Rest Area
At a midnight highway rest area, the weary travelers each quietly relax their minds. A brief moment spent with complete strange...
Brave Story
When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the c...
Cut
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker and TFF alum (Vegas: Based on a True Story) Amir Naderi travels to Tokyo to tell this striking,...
Cycloid
A man sets his alarm clock and goes to bed, but during the night, the world turns into a seamless series of animated dreamscape...
Delamu
One of Chinas's great filmmmakers (The Blue Kite, Springtime In A Small Town) offers a rare glimpse at a culture nearly untouch...
Departures
Winner of the Academy Award® for best foreign language film, Departures is the eccentric, lushly scored, movingly funny tale of...
Dust to Dust
Yuima Nakazato, one of the most promising designers in Japan, journeys to Kenya to learn about how the fashion industry has imp...
Hanging Garden
Meet the Kyobashis, a model suburban Japanese family. Or are they? In director Toshiaki Toyoda's skillful examination of contem...
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
From Tribeca Film. Revenge, honor and disgrace collide when a samurai’s request to commit ritual suicide leads to a tense showd...
Infection
Death is "just a breath away" in this horror film from Japan that is set in a horrifying hospital whose overworked staff is bus...
Kata
A fantastical and dramatic journey through the mind of 13-year-old Mahiro Takano, a long-time undefeated national kata karate f...
Linda Linda Linda 20th Anniversary - 4k Remaster
The World Premiere of the 4K remaster, directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, is a cult favorite and a hidden gem of Japanese cinema t...
Little Miss Sumo
Female sumo wrestling champion Hiyori confronts obstacles both inside and outside the ring in an attempt to change Japan's nati...
Love Collage
We've all experienced the intensity of first love. In this bittersweet romantic tale, set against the backdrops of New York and...
Madly
Madly is an international anthology of short films exploring love in all its permutations. Directed by some of the most vibrant...
Magic Hour
Bella is a peculiar woman labeled a monster by the man who created her. Trapped in a hotel room, she braves the outside world w...
Magic Hour
Bella is a peculiar woman labeled a monster by the man who created her. Trapped in a hotel room, she braves the outside world w...
Mr Long
Following an assignment gone wrong in Tokyo, professional Taiwanese hitman Mr. Long (Chang Chen) finds himself stranded without...
Odayaka
The Great East Japan Earthquake has just struck, the waters of the ensuing tsunami finally rolling back into the sea. In the co...
Picture Character
Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually...
Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems
Pig: The Dam Keeper Poems is a 2D animated series based on the world of The Dam Keeper, the beloved Academy Award®-nominated sh...
Premonition
This Japanese horror film was created by a director of one of the influential original Ring films. This time the malevolent mag...